Chapter 141: A Simple Matter
Zhou Xiao stared at Zhan Sheng for two glances: “Have you played games before?”
Zhan Sheng nodded: “Sort of, I’ve commanded similar ones.”
Zhou Xiao jumped up abruptly: “I’ll have the Flying Sparrow Sect disciples think of a way. The demonic beasts have aerial units, making it difficult for us to act.”
When playing games, the most crucial thing is a commander.
The demonic beast invasion is akin to a small-scale siege battle; it’s best if someone steps up.
It’s just that the only frustrating point about this game is that you can’t command via voice.
It completely stifles combat effectiveness.
No matter how skilled Zhan Sheng is, she can only offer suggestions now.
Because she doesn’t know the players’ combat strength, and with her own strength, she can’t go out into the demonic beast territory to see the situation outside.
It’s too far.
After giving Zhou Xiao a suggestion, she asked the System: “How long will it take me to come up if I open my Spiritual Root now?”
System: “By the time you come up, the battle might be over.”
“…”
Zhan Sheng thought for two seconds and decisively chose to open her Spiritual Root first.
There’s really nothing she can do by staying here now.
Just like the System, she can only watch.
Zhan Sheng returned to the novice area, hoping the veteran players could hold on. She didn’t want the game to end right after she joined.
After preparing, she took the Inner Elixir for opening her Spiritual Root and logged off.
Before logging off, she saw her time.
Five hours and fifteen minutes.
Very long.
It was still calculated according to real-world time.
She wasn’t sure if this talent was good or bad.
After logging off, she immediately started searching online for information on breaking through Sects at the start.
Then she saw Han Tian’s Yunzhou Continent website, which not only had a current map of Wang’an County but also a map of another major city, Liuxian City.
This was undoubtedly what Zhan Sheng urgently needed.
At this moment, the System immediately notified Song Jiulai: “Damn, she really has a Gold Spiritual Root.”
“Huh?”
Song Jiulai, who was already close to the Tier 4 Demonic Beast’s range, was also shocked: “The female player with the surging energy you mentioned, Zhan Sheng?”
“Yeah, five hours and fifteen minutes. That’s definitely a Gold Spiritual Root. The Shuitan only took three and a half hours to enter, and she’s already surpassed that by a lot.”
“Holy crap!”
Song Jiulai was also incredulous.
She originally thought it would be around four hours, but she didn’t expect it to be a full five hours.
What kind of heaven-defying talent is this?
Song Jiulai felt a strong desire at that moment.
The System said: “Should we send her to a Major Sect? Guanhai Sect would go crazy with joy, and maybe there’s even a chance in Myriad Immortal Sect…”
“No,” Song Jiulai said with some heartache, “her talent is actually too good, too conspicuous. If it attracts attention, it won’t be beneficial for us.”
It’s better to be like the Shuitan, not too much, and not too conspicuous.
Gold Spiritual Roots are secretly cultivated in major Sects. If we send her out and they ask how we discovered it, what if some idiot comes to Longevity Sect to investigate?
It’s already unscientific for Zhan Sheng, at her age, to be in the Early Qi Condensation Stage with a Gold Spiritual Root.
A Purple Spiritual Root can be faked, but a Gold Spiritual Root is truly difficult to conceal.
A Gold Spiritual Root should be a Heaven’s Chosen everywhere.
She calculated: “With our current assets, we can afford to support her. Let her stay here for now.”
In the early stages, her cultivation might not progress as quickly as other Sects due to insufficient Spiritual Energy, but let’s leave it at that for now.
They have Cultivation Methods like Palm Thunder. If necessary, they can take Zhan Sheng to Cave Demon Valley for training.
The Spiritual Energy there is abundant, and there are many Demonic Beasts, making it an excellent place.
System: “She also seems to be a commander. She looks like she’s from the national team, but also not quite.”
“She’s a commander?”
Song Jiulai exclaimed: “That’s even better. The Sect is currently short of commanders, so we definitely can’t send her away.”
Whether she’s from the national team or not, Song Jiulai is in dire need of talent right now!
After considering Zhan Sheng’s situation, Song Jiulai rushed to the Yin Sha Deer’s location as quickly as possible.
What normally takes Foundation Establishment Stage cultivators two days to travel, she covered in just a few hours.
Her route was actually quite close to this Tier 4 Demonic Beast.
As soon as she entered the Yin Sha Deer’s range, she felt that chilling aura.
It felt very similar to how she felt when encountering danger.
She could no longer sense the aura of the Tier 3 Demonic Beasts.
“Oh no, did all those Tier 3 Demonic Beasts go over there?”
Song Jiulai observed her surroundings. With her Foundation Establishment Stage cultivation and her Sea of Consciousness already opened, her perception was several times stronger than those at the same level. She quickly locked onto the Yin Sha Deer’s aura.
In terms of data points, it was like she ‘saw a small point of light.’
The Yin Sha Deer also sensed Song Jiulai’s aura. Its massive deer head turned, and its skeletal-like antlers, emitting a dark, eerie aura, fixed their hollow eye sockets on Song Jiulai.
What Song Jiulai saw was more than what Honghuang and the others had seen earlier.
She noticed a faintly glowing rift where the Yin Sha Deer was standing. Flames continuously spewed from the rift, and the Yin Sha Deer was blocking it, making it impossible to see what was inside.
The Yin Sha Deer remained there and didn’t leave, otherwise, Honghuang and the others wouldn’t have escaped earlier.
Song Jiulai didn’t waste any time with it.
What’s your level?
Let’s see how deep it is with a Palm Thunder strike!
“Roar—!”
Song Jiulai’s current Palm Thunder looked thick. One strike landed on the Yin Sha Deer, and it even had a restraining effect.
This Yin Sha Deer, which looked so imposing, jumped up from the strike.
Its roar was unlike other demonic beasts; it was muffled, like it had a speaker, a roar emanating from the abyss.
It made one’s mind uneasy.
System: “It’s a subwoofer too.”
Song Jiulai: “…”
It was the System’s fault that she never felt nervous during combat.
After the Yin Sha Deer jumped, a large patch of black mist suddenly appeared around Song Jiulai, instantly plunging her vision into darkness.
The surrounding environment changed abruptly, and the Yin Sha Deer’s location could no longer be seen.
She was startled: “Damn, an area-of-effect attack that’s also instant cast! I thought it was a single-target attack!”
The black mist encroached, and within it, there seemed to be some whispers, rustling sounds that made one’s head ache.
However, Song Jiulai quickly regained her composure. With the System in her mind, she was less affected by such things. But the black mist also dealt physical damage, so she simply set herself ablaze and broke through the black mist, enveloped in flames.
The moment she broke into the black mist, Song Jiulai felt an icy chill that seeped into her bones, which even the flames couldn’t resist.
It was so cold that her teeth chattered.
The black mist also contained sonic interference, and things resembling lost souls struggled to appear.
Song Jiulai saw Jin Shu’s ferocious face.
That day, she hadn’t burned Jin Shu’s corpse and left a handle because her cultivation at the time wasn’t enough to melt Jin Shu’s corpse.
At this moment, Jin Shu’s soul was in the same state as when he died, his face contorted in pain as he looked ferociously at Song Jiulai.
“You killed me, you killed me!!!”
Song Jiulai shot a fireball at him.
“So what? It was just a casual thing!”
She felt no guilt towards those who wanted to harm her!
The update for 12.19 is temporarily postponed. I’m so frustrated, can I not make promises? My laptop is acting up this afternoon and won’t open, showing garbled text. I’ll check it tomorrow morning and post an update on the situation. I can’t see the status codes or type characters on my phone. I won’t make promises anymore; I’ll just update daily.
